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At least eight ministers had resigned to contest the just concluded primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

TOSIN AJUWON


With the vacuum created by their resignation, President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to fill the position of the ministers who resigned to contest the 2023 general election.

At least eight ministers in the cabinet of Mr Buhari had resigned to contest the just concluded primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The ministers are: Rotimi Amaechi, Transportation (Rivers); Godswill Akpabio, Niger Delta Affairs (Akwa-Ibom); Ogbonnaya Onu, Science, Technology, and Innovation (Abia); Paulen Tallen, Women Affairs (Plateau).

Others are Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, State for Education (Imo); Uche Ogah, State for Mines and Steel Development (Abia) and Tayo Alasoadura, State for Niger Delta Affairs (Ondo).

Mr Buhari had during a Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, asked that the vying for elective public office resign their positions.

The president’s directive followed the decision of the Court of Appeal dismissing a suit that challenged section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, which prohibits appointees from participating in a convention as a delegate or nominee.

Peoples Gazette gathered on Tuesday that since the resignation of the affected cabinet and ministers, their portfolios have remained vacant.

Section 147 (3) of the Constitution requires that the President “appoint at least one Minister from each State, who shall be an indigene of such State”.

The country has 36 states and FCT, Abuja; meaning that there should be at least 37 ministerial nominees, who would represent each of the states and the FCT.

It was not immediately clear if Mr Buhari would appoint a replacement for the affected ministries before the 2023 general election.

Two presidential sources who spoke to The Gazette, said Mr Buhari was not under any pressure to appoint new helmsmen to fill the vacant ministries.

“So, the President is less concerned about that for now and the election is just a few months by the way. We have to prepare,” one of the sources said.

In 2015, when Mr Buhari was first sworn into office, it took him over six months to appoint his ministers. When he eventually did, some dead people made the list of appointees.

https://gazettengr.com/buhari-yet-to-fill-cabinet-positions-one-month-after-resignation-of-ministers/

He's clueless, sha don't blame mr buhari he's an old man

Wether he fills them or not, it's irrelevant to average Nigerians. Do you think any lower income Nigerian hustling for their 400 naira per day earnings is going around wondering about Buhari's scaley cabinet?

lol person wey take 6month plus to appoint clueless minister you now expect him to perform magic this time around...

K ask ur self this question.

WHERE THEY USEFUL IN THE FIRST PLACE?

This man wan put another set of useless, greedy hausa thieves.....

I am OBIdient jare..

Na his way. Indecisive leader.

There will be no difference anyways.. Whether he appoints them or not.. They are still going to be clueless and lackadaisical in attitude like their boss

APC is not a serious party. Neither is PDP.
We need real change.

We should just forget Buhari. The guy is very unserious

Baba Go Slow. Npower beneficiaries have not been paid since February.

Buhari is heading them all, by himself..........

Hmmm, buhari the nauthy boy, he want to cash out all by himself

Because the ministers are not missed.

Them dey work before?

E too buhari 9 good months to select ministers so guys forget that position na till end of his tenure

Are you ppl go stay on Burahi's d*ck until next February? Give it a bleeping break already.

He doesn't know what he's doing as a president,and they are trying another way to parkage Parkinson partient for us as a president God no go green for una,

He
Is
A failure


In a sane country,APC no suppose exist again after d destruction the they have caused in Nigeria.
But e shock me say youths, graduatez and supposed well learned men are still clamouring for APC.
not just that ,a candidate so old that he pee and poo on himself.

I will always choose truth and humanity over tribe and religion

The most Unserious president in the history of this country

The ministers are: Rotimi Amaechi, Transportation (Rivers); Godswill Akpabio, Niger Delta Affairs (Akwa-Ibom); Ogbonnaya Onu, Science, Technology, and Innovation (Abia); Paulen Tallen, Women Affairs (Plateau).

Others are Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, State for Education (Imo); Uche Ogah, State for Mines and Steel Development (Abia) and Tayo Alasoadura, State for Niger Delta Affairs (Ondo).

Na so dem dey rush ministers, una think say na una ward chairmen for una villages we dey talk about?
Ministers of over 200 million people.
Make una go put una papa for dia now. Bunch of hypocrites and criminals. They must wail on everything and anything in life. Mad people

He doesn't really need to.

Two reasons.

1. The ministers of state can conveniently take over the running of the whole ministries.

And 2. What have they even achieved as ministers that the country will miss them and start clamouring for their replacements. They have just been there like statues, eating money. So the president might as well forget replacing them let's pray the money being diverted reduces.

Warm regards.

AFRICANJAMAICA:
He
Is
A failure

and what are you? A ..... ?!
Confirm it make we know

The most Unserious president in the history of this country .

pretydiva:
The most Unserious president in the history of this country

says a er of thieves and criminals. Shame on u

Mr integrity doing what he's good at. He will not replace them, and will take over their ministerial roles to add to the ministry of petroleum and pocket all.

Bubu is something else.